State takeover of county programs just became a worse idea

When the state announced in February that it was going to take over certain public assistance programs from Milwaukee County but still have county taxpayers fund the programs, some county officials rightfully complained that such a hybrid solution was a bad idea. Turns out, it was worse than they - and we - thought. »Read Full Blog Post

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It would help if you would explain exactly how the county's costs are actually going up,and how that would affect the taxpayers since that was the whole premise of the blog.Unless your blog was simply a promo for the Saturday editorial.

I certainly hope that you will be honest about it and include the fact that Walker willfully failed to fill all of the funded spots in an effort to push his more expensive, less productive privatization plan.

And how that with only 2/3 of the spots filled, there has been a marked improvement. Imagine what might have been if he actually had done his job as he was legally obliged to do.